Much of the day, the prosecutors of the case They toured the story of Facebook since its launch in 2004 And only at the end of the day they began to advance in the nucleus of the case, the first Instagram acquisition and subsequently of WhatsApp.
The Prosecutor’s Office considers that Facebook bought Instagram To get rid of an increasingly strong rival that He threatened his control among users.
Prosecutors confronted Zuckerberg with emails and messages that report The process that anticipated the acquisition of mobile application to share photographs.
The social network wanted to get Instagram, then the businessman said, for the “huge number” of people who They were using the application to share a growing number of imageswhile Facebook users only published “a few photos.”
Facebook tried to remedy the problem developing its own application to share photos, called Facebook Camera, but the project did not advance at the desired speed.
“I am worried that we are very behind“, Zuckerberg wrote.